Past News: 2009

ITHAKA Forum: Next Generation Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Scholarship

On October 27, 2009, along with Texas A&M and the University of Houston, ITHAKA hosted a forum titled Next Generation Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Scholarship in Houston, TX.
The forum focused on initiatives in which ITHAKA, through its services JSTOR and Portico, is currently engaged. It also highlighted examples of next generation publishing and preservation efforts … Read More

ITHAKA: Sustainable Scholarship 2009

On September 23rd, ITHAKA held a day-long meeting focused on the sustainability of scholarly communications. We were joined by leaders from libraries, presses, publishers, and learned societies, as well as editors, digital project leaders, and funders working in higher education.
Our aims in hosting Sustainable Scholarship 2009 were to facilitate a productive exchange of ideas among … Read More

Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities Announced at Third Annual Participants’ Meeting

Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants’ Meeting, held during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In direct response to preservation concerns expressed by libraries and publishers, Portico is moving beyond e-journal preservation.

Portico now preserves scholarly e-books. At ALA, … Read More

Portico Participants’ Meeting at ALA

Portico Participants’ Meeting
ALA Annual Meeting
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, opened the meeting with a brief discussion of our organizational mission, current work, and future plans.
Our guest speaker, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins … Read More

Palgrave Macmillan to Preserve E-Books in Portico

Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Palgrave Macmillan to preserve about 5,400 e-books hosted on the Palgrave Connect platform. Through this agreement with Portico, Palgrave Macmillan furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 44 titles from its e-journals … Read More

ALA MidWinter 2009

Portico, along with JSTOR, will be exhibiting at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston, MA. Please stop by booth # 2649 in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on January 15-18, 2010.
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Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Portico (www.portico.org), a digital preservation service for the scholarly community, is pleased to announce that it entered into an agreement with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) to preserve three online journals and three conference abstracts series published by SEG and the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS), an SEG publishing partner.
Founded in 1930, SEG … Read More

Gale and Portico Enter into an Agreement To Preserve Gale Digital Collections

We are very pleased to announce that Portico will be preserving ten major digitized historical collections from Gale including 19th Century United States Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online. The full press release is below.
With this new addition, Portico helps libraries protect and ensure reliable, future access to an even … Read More

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the College Art Association

Portico (www.portico.org), a digital preservation service for the scholarly community, is pleased to announce that it entered into an agreement with the College Art Association (CAA) to preserve the CAA’s online journal, caa.reviews. Founded in 1911, the CAA serves art professionals as well as anyone who is interested or invested in visual art and … Read More

Portico Announces Digital Preservation Agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery

Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to preserve approximately 400 publications from the ACM Digital Library, including journals, magazines, newsletters, transactions, and proceedings.
The ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org), is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, … Read More